Italian artists value tradition ? from the carvers of conch shells into cameos, to glassblowers, to the makers of music.

“I have been playing the mandolin since I was 9,” said Carlo Aonzo, a native of Savona, Italy. “It is a tradition in my family [and] my father taught me in the Italian classical technique.”

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